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EYE SHADE.

No. 593,077. Patented Nov. 2, 1897.

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WILLIAM S. BEVAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEXV YORK.

EYE-SHAD E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,077, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed June 19, 1897. Serial No. 641,411. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, 'WILLIAM S. BEVAN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Eye-Shade, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, 1

The object of my invention is to provide a construction whereby an eye-shade may be comfortably worn and held at such distance from the forehead and head that a circulation of air will be obtained between the person and the shade throughout its length.

A further object of the invention is to provide supports for the shade at intervals of its length, the supports being of such character as not to absorb perspiration or conduct it to the body of the shade, enabling said body to be made of a delicate and light material.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawingsfiorming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved shade applied, a portion being broken away to disclose the interior. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the complete shade drawn upon a larger scale, and'Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 8 3 of Fig. 2.

The shade A may be of the ordinary shape or may be given any suitable contour, and it may be made of any desired material. The shade may be held upon the person in the customary manner, but preferably, as illustrated, aspring-arm 10 is secured at each end, the arms being bent in direction of each other and each terminating in a head or eye 11. These arms correspond to the temples of an eyeglass and can be connected by an elastic tape or the like.

A series of openings is made in the shade adjacent to its upper edge, and in each of these openings 21. combined supporting and spacing device Bis secured. Each device consists of a tube 12 open at one end and provided with a head 13 at the opposite end and an outer shorter tube 14: open at both ends, being provided with a flange 15 at one of its ends. A cushion 17, preferably of a non-absorbent material, such as cork, is secured by frictional contact or otherwise in the open end of the inner tube 12.

In applying the device B to the shade the open end of the inner tube 12 is passed through an opening from the out-side of the shade until the head 13 bears against the outer face of the shade, as shown in Fig. 3. The tube 14 is then slipped over the tube 12 until its flange 15 engages with the inner face of the shade, whereupon the inner end of the inner tube is bent outward, forming a flange 16, which extends over the inner end of the outer tube 14, insuring the attachment of both tubes to the shade. The cork or other cushion 17 extends out beyond the inner end of the inner tube.

When the shade is upon the person, the cork cushions only engage with the forehead, and the body of the shade is held so far from the head that it cannot be stained or made wet by perspiration,. the construction also providing for a circulation of air between the shade and the head. Under this construction the body of the shade may be made of the most delicate material.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An eye-shade provided near its upper edge with a series of inwardly-projecting soft, nonabsorbent pads, designed to rest against the forehead of the wearer and hold the shade from contact therewith.

2. The combination, with an eye-shade, of combined supporting and spacing devices, extending from the inner face of the shade, each device consisting of two tubes held to slide one upon the other, the outer end of the inner tube being provided with a head and the corresponding end of the other tube having a flange, the inner end of the inner tube being open, and arranged for capping engagement with the inner end of the outer tube, and a cushion-block carried by the inner tube at its inner end, as and for the purpose specified.

WVILLIAM S. BEVAN.

\Vitnesses:

WM. CLARKEDOE, EDWARD L. FROST. 

